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We know our friends by their defects rather than by their merits.

W. Somerset Maugham

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I’d sooner be smashed into a mangled pulp by a bus when we cross the street than look forward to a life like yours.
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Buy Cross Forward Life Like Look Mangled Pulp Smasher Sooner Street
There is a sort of man who pays no attention to his good actions, but is tormented by his bad ones. This is the type that most often writes about himself.
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There is nothing so terrible as the pursuit of art by those who have no talent.
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No Nothing Pursuit Talent Terrible Those
There are times when I look over the various parts of my character with perplexity.
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Character Look Over Part Perplexity Time Varius
But it may be that the way of life that he has chosen for himself and the peculiar strength and sweetness of his character may have an ever-growing influence over his fellow men so that, long after his death perhaps, it may be realized that there lived in this age a very remarkable creature.
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If nobody spoke unless he had something to say, the human race would very soon lose the use of speech.
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Human Lose Nobody Race Something Soon Speech Spoke Unless Very
I have an idea that the only thing which makes it possible to regard this world we live in without disgust is the beauty which now and then men create out of the chaos. The pictures they paint, the music they compose, the books they write, and the lives they lead.
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Beauty Compose Disgust Idea Live Make Men Only Picture Possible Regard Thing World
When I was young I was amazed at Plutarch’s statement that the elder Cato began at the age of eighty to learn Greek. I am amazed no longer. Old age is ready to undertake tasks that youth shirked because they would take too long.
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In Hollywood, the women are all peaches. It makes one long for an apple occasionally.
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Apple Country Hollywood Long Make Occasionally One Peach Women
I´m not going to bring a child into the world, and love her, and bring her up, just so that some man may want to sleep with her so much that he’s willing to provide her with board and lodging for the rest of her life.
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The future will one day be the present and will seem as unimportant as the present does now.
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Does Future Present Seen Unimportant
They call beautiful a dress, a dog, a sermon; and when they are face to face with Beauty cannot recognise it.
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Of all these the richest in beauty is the beautiful life. That is the perfect work of art.
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All Art Beautiful Beauty Perfect Richest Work
The complete life, the perfect pattern, includes old age as well as youth and maturity.
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Age Complete Include Maturity Old Pattern Perfect Young
Life is so largely controlled by chance that its conduct can be but a perpetual improvisation.
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Chance Conduct Control Improvisation Largely Life Perpetual
We who are of mature age seldom suspect how unmercifully and yet with what insight the very young judge us.
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Insight Judge Mature Seldom Suspect Ummercifully Very Yet Young

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